St. Paul daily globe., 1887-10-13
and saw him the last time in September

and saw him the last time in September
last year, he said. His testimony was
in brief:
/ went to Minneapolis from Chicago, and
on July we met Connor, Harris. Cook and
Kinney. About July 8 the postoftice robbery
was talked of among the party. Cook said he
knew the surroundings and Connor said that
he had been in the postottice ON the nights OF
out arousng the watchmen. Connor told
me he didn't think the job could
be done without blowing the safe.
When first met these men in Minneapolis
came across one. met Cook one afternoon
and he told me about the postotfice, and L
went around and saw it. The first night we
went to the postoffice and coudn,t get i'll,
Connor and | stayed up all night and watched
the police and other people on the street.
On Friday night we entered the office about
1890, and left at l 30. Connor and went
in. while Cook and Harris were stationed at
the front to be on the lookout, and Kenney
and Callahan at the rear.
HANDED THE DRILL
and the brace TO Connor and he used ii while
/ held him. Some of the tools we're ours and
some we had taken from rblacksmith shop.
We had drills and punches. After blowing
the safe open we did not find the amount of
cash that We expected. Connor proposed
that we take the stamps and l objected at
first, but finally agreed to take them. We
got between $50 and 500 in cash, and about
$4,000 worth of stamps in packages Con-
nor, Cook, Harris and carried the stamps
out in the alley and put them on a wagon
that we stole from barn back
of the postotfice. Kenny and Callahan
hitched up the horse while we
We've bringing out the stamps. Connor, Har
ris, Kinney. Callahan and came to st. Paul
in the wagon and Cook stayed in Mime
apolis. On the road We stopped at new
house and got carpenters chest in which
we put the stamps. We reached the edge of
the city, and Callahan and Kinney were
given the chest to take to some boarding
house in st. Paul. Connor followed them.
Harris and | met Connor and Kinney in
restaurant that day. The chest had been put
i'll Norwegian boarding house. Connor
went to Minneapolis TO get his satchel and
we met again the next day in st. Paul. We
then took the chest out on the edge of the
town and burned it. Connor and | were to
look after it. Connor promised to meet me
Saturday night, but he did not keep his ap-
pointment. then took what stamps Con-
about $4,000 worth of stamps. Some had
got wet and stuck together and | burned
them. took about 81, 800 worth to Chicago
and sold them to Finucan, grocer of the
Fifth ward. left Chicago after selling the
stamps and returned again and met Connor
there in September. | was arrested two
months after selling the stamps. l was not
TO get the pay for the stamps until Finucan
had disposed of them, and as he was arrested
while selling them l never got any money
from him. 49, ~
Cr0Ss-examined very severely by MIR.
O'Brien he said he himself went to Min
neapoliS to commit a robbery if he
could, that Connor went away the Sat-
urday after the robbery and he had not
seen him until September in Chicago.
year ago. Continuing, he testified that
meanwhile Adams had been in Toronto,
Chicago and Troy and had never re-
ceived anything for the stamps, that
Cook, Harris and ConnOr originated the
PLAN FOR THE ROBBERY,
Cook first proposing it. He said he was
now serving his second term in prison,
having put i'll one year at Fort Madison
for burglary.
The other testimony adduced for the
prosecution was that Chief Hoy, of the
Minneapolis detectives, had seen Con-
nor in Minneapolis about July l, and on
the day after the robbery, and that In
SpectOr Fairburn, then tending bar in a
saloon, had seen COnnOr there, and had
also seen COnnOr, Cook and Adams Oh
the night before the robbery (Which
Officer Cole also testified to having seen
ConnOr in Chibago. Counsel O'Brien
then stated to the jury that he proposed
to prove an alibi for the defense, and
was able to show that Connor was an
old resident of Chicago and in that city
during the entire month of July. The
witnesses for the defense were then put
on. The prisoners wife, John Halpin,
Mrs. Halpin and Matthew Roche all
stated that they had seen Connor in
Chicago during the month of July.
ConnOr then was placed upon the stand,
and he denied everything Adams had
told and said he had never been in Min
neapoliS; that he was attending closely
tn In ,n1 htrct Iol,, IIoI
pin. ..:..-
Hon. c. D. O'Brien closed the testi-
mOny with Connor'S evidence, and
made strong argument for the de-
Tense. He made very little of the
'sEVIDENCE OF AN
District Attorney Ewing summed up
for the prosecution, after which Judge
Nelson submitted his charge to the
jury. He cautioned them against per-
mitting the seriousness of the crime or
the fact that it was burglary of post
Office to prejudice them against
the prisoner. He stated that he was in
dicted for breaking three sections of the
postal law, that the only defense offered
had been an alibi, which it was neces-
sary for the government to disprOve.
The evidence of an accomplice was COM
petent, but was to be carefully con-
sidered and weighed. If the evidence
advanced by the government showed
clearly and conclusively that the de-
fendant was in Minneapolis at the time of
the robbery then the alibi was overcome,
but if the evidence was not sufficient to
satisfy and convince the jury beyond
reasonable doubt of the prisoners guilt,
then they should return verdict of not
guilty. The jury retired but failed to
agree before o'clock, and were accord
ingly locked in for the night.